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  1. John Steinbeck Research.
topic: John Steinbeck, war correspondent.

Paul S. Boyer. "Grapes of Wrath, The." The Oxford Companion to United States History. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 2 Dec. 2010 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.
  1. wrote some of his most famous books during the great depression, WWII
  2. Grapes of Wrath written in 1939
  3. about the Joad family
  4. Grapes of wrath was written during the Great Depression.
  5. Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer prize, and Nobel prize.
  6. focused attention on the plight of dust bowl.
  7. book also became the target of censorship campaigns.
  8. 1940 became a film.
  9. declined after ww2
  10. Drawn from Steinbeck's research for a 1936 newspaper series on the conditions of California migrants, the novel chronicles the epic story of the Joad family, driven off their foreclosed Oklahoma farm.
  11. the family disintegrates in the face of harsh labor conditions
  12. Steinbeck proffered no explicit solution to the social problems he described, he clearly hoped that his audience of middle‐class readers would embrace this new consciousness.
  13. reputation among scholars declined after ww2
  14. Joads are still one of Depression‐era America's most familiar and enduring images.
  15. heading west on route 66 for the “promised land” of California
  16. the novel is one of America's all time best sellers.
  17. Grapes of Wrath was one of his most famous books.
  18. critics questioned its literary merits and historians demonstrated that both the migrants and their experiences in California were much more diverse than how Steinbeck portrays it.
  19. also wrote of mice and men
  20. and wrote east of eden


SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on East of Eden.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2003. Web. 1 Dec. 2010.

  1. Wrote East of Eden.
  2. East of Eden is about a man named Samuel Hamilton whos decides to settle in the Salinas Valley in Northern California.
  3. during ww2 many wanted to move to Califoronia, the Hamiltons were forced to move there from Ireland.
  4. they were forced to live on the driest and most barron land in the valley.
  5. To support his nine children, Samuel works as a blacksmith, a well-digger, and an unlicensed doctor.
  6. Samuel had 9 kids.
  7. Steinbeck lived in salinas california. in the novel thats where all the characters move to.
  8. Cal Trask, Aron Trask, Adam Trask, Cathy Ames, Samuel Hamilton, are the major charcters in the book
  9. based it off of where he lives
  10. considered steinbecks most ambitous work
  11. one of his bestsellers upon its publication
  12. about what his fmaily did during the war
  13. adam and cathy are crime partners
  14. cathy poisined Faye
  15. Samuel dies
  16. Adam soon after the funeral forgerts Cathy
  17. Adam becomes a livelier and more committed father to his boys
  18. Adam discovers that his son Aron has joined the Army
  19. Aron joined because he was miserable at Stanford
  20. Aron finds out before he died that his mother wasnt dead and he ran away


Olson, John. "Journey inspired by steinbecks travels." Madison 4 12 2010. 1. december 12, 2010 <http://host.madison.com/travel/article_dcd466fa-ae2b-5cfe-a48e-c93e2e91d4cd.html>.


  1. 50 years ago Steinbeck sallied through Wisconsin
  2. Steinbeck was a month into the 10,000-mile trek that led to his best-selling book “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.”
  3. Steinbecks friedns told him he was writing books about a country he no longer knew
  4. Steinbeck traveled heavy-laden in his specially made camper rig; convenience stores were not yet invented
  5. he drove counterclockwise aroun dthe U.S.
  6. 1960, Steinbeck witnessed the warbling “Cheerleaders,” a vile lineup of white women screaming racist venom at Ruby Bridges, the black first-grade student who was the first to integrate the school
  7. they chanted 2,4,6,8 we dont have to integrate
  8. Billings, Montana, a state whose wilderness captured Steinbeck’s heart
  9. Steinbecks original truck and camper is in a museum
  10. When Steinbeck began his road trip, he was 58 and had been sideswiped by a stroke and heart condition
  11. Steinbeck believed his friends, bought a truck and left his summer house in Sag Harbor, on Long Island, in September 1960 for an 11-week trek through 34 states
  12. his dog Charley rode with him in the front seat
  13. Travels with Charley: In Search of America was based on him traveling with his dog
  14. Born and raised in Salinas, Calif., Steinbeck spent much of his adulthood in New York City or globe-trotting.
  15. Charley was a French poodle.
  16. it was written in 1961
  17. Olsons trip was inspired by Travels With Charley
  18. Steinbeck was a month into the 10,000-mile trek that led to his best-selling book “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.”
  19. Steinbck and Olson were 58 when they began the trip
  20. Olson made the decision to fight back and travel Steinbeck’s roads in my own GMC camper truck, writing his own book.


Taylor, Nick. "The Great Depression." nytimes.com 1. december 6, 2010 <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics


  1. Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis
  2. marked by widespread unemployment, near halts in industrial production and construction
  3. The start of the Depression is usually pegged to the stock market crash of “Black Tuesday,” Oct. 29, 1929
  4. The stock market continued to decline despite brief rallies.
  5. The use of credit for the purchase of homes, cars, furniture and household appliances resulted in foreclosures and repossessions
  6. As consumers lost buying power industrial production fell, businesses failed, and more workers lost their jobs.
  7. As city dwellers lost their homes, farmers also lost their land and equipment to foreclosure.
  8. By 1932 the unemployment rate had soared past 20 percent. Thousands of banks and businesses had failed
  9. President Herbert Hoover, a Republican and former Commerce secretary, believed the government should monitor the economy and encourage counter-cyclical spending to ease downturns, but not directly intervene
  10. Millions were homeless
  11. The presidential campaign of 1932 was run against the backdrop of the Depression.
  12. The parks and forests program, called the Civilian Conservation Corps, was the first so-called work relief program that provided federally funded jobs
  13. Roosevelt faced a banking crisis and unemployment that had reached 24.9 percent
  14. Roosevelt’s efforts to assert government control over the economy were frustrated by Supreme Court rulings that overturned key pieces of legislation
  15. Roosevelt made the misstep of trying to “pack” the Supreme Court with additional justices
  16. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, following Japan’s invasion of China two years earlier and the continuing war there, turned national attention to defense
  17. Roosevelt who was re-elected in 1936, sought to rebuild a military infrastructure that had fallen into disrepair after World War I
  18. Jobless workers were absorbed as trainees for defense jobs and then by the draft that went into effect in 1940, when Roosevelt was elected to a third term
  19. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 that started World War II sent America’s factories into full production and absorbed all available workers
  20. Despite the New Deal’s many measures and their alleviation of the worst effects of the Great Depression, it was the humming factories that supplied the American war effort that finally brought the Depression to a close. And it was not until 1954 that the stock market regained its pre-Depression levels